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  • Separated by colour-coded floors, employees of the auditing company Ernst & Young, participate in informal meetings in E & Y's Norman Foster-designed 385,000 square foot E & Y's European headquarter offices at More London, London England. Those on the top blue level 8 may be more senior to those below on the 7th purple storey of this tall, upright scene of modernity. It is busier on the upper floor then the two men beneath. Subsequent levels are vacant. Architecturally, the term atrium comes from Latin: a large and light central hall or reception of a house where guests were greeted. The depth and height of all levels from near the top to almost the bottom give a sense of vertigo, a dizzying perspective on seniority and success as opposed to lower-ranking middle-management.
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  • A 12 storey tower block on Thamesmead Estate, social housing run by the Peabody Trust, Greenwich & Bexley borough, London, UK.
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  • A 12 storey tower block on Thamesmead Estate, social housing run by the Peabody Trust, Greenwich & Bexley borough, London, UK.
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  • A 12 storey tower block on Thamesmead Estate, social housing run by the Peabody Trust, Greenwich & Bexley borough, London, UK.
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  • A 12 storey tower block on Thamesmead Estate, social housing run by the Peabody Trust, Greenwich & Bexley borough, London, UK.
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  • A 12 storey tower block on Thamesmead Estate, social housing run by the Peabody Trust, Greenwich & Bexley borough, London, UK.
    UK-London-Social-housing-Thamesmead-...jpg
  • A 12 storey tower block on Thamesmead Estate, social housing run by the Peabody Trust, Greenwich & Bexley borough, London, UK.
    UK-London-Social-housing-Thamesmead-...jpg
  • A 12 storey tower block on Thamesmead Estate, social housing run by the Peabody Trust, Greenwich & Bexley borough, London, UK.
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  • The Shard rising up above flowers and trees in Southwark, London, UK. The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is an 87-storey skyscraper in London that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development.
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  • The Shard rising up above flowers and trees in Southwark, London, UK. The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is an 87-storey skyscraper in London that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development.
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  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
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  • Set incongruously next to London's old Leadenhall Market we see the floodlit exterior of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, home to the post-modern architecture of the insurance underwriters insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located at number 1, Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The Lloyds market began in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse around 1688 and is today the world's leading insurance market providing specialist insurance services to businesses in over 200 countries and territories.
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  • From a high vantage point looking across the atrium of British architect Sir Richard Rogers' Lloyds building, we see the zig-zag-shape stripes of escalators, beyond which we see the desks of insurance underwriters at the Lloyd's building, home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London which is located in Lime Street, in the heart of the City of London. Lloyd's is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or "members", whether individuals (traditionally known as "Names") or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk. Unlike most of its competitors in the reinsurance market and is neither a company nor a corporation. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. looking across
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  • Separated by four floors, two employees of the auditing company Ernst & Young, make their way along walkways in the main atrium of E & Y's European headquarter offices at More London, London England. Striding confidently between offices, the two people are unaware of each other's presence but make their way from right to left of this tall, upright scene of modernity. The senior person on top may have an advantage from better opportunities, the low-ranking worker below may be needing to rise up the ranks. Morning sunlight floods through the green tinted glass that overlooks Tower Bridge on the River Thames. The term atrium comes from Latin: a large and light central hall or reception of a house where guests were greeted. The depth and height of all levels from near the top to almost the bottom give a sense of vertigo, a dizzying perspective.
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  • A female office worker pauses to make a call on her mobile phone, on a wide walkway in Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed 385,000 square foot European headquarter at More London, London England. All other walkways above and below are empty and holding her head, the lady has sought privacy from her open-plan workstation and stands on her own. Architecturally, the term atrium comes from Latin: A large and light central hall or reception of a house where guests were greeted. The depth and height of all levels from near the top to almost the bottom give a sense of vertigo, a dizzying perspective. E & Y employs 114,000 people, in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
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  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
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  • Construction site of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
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  • Detail of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
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  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
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  • Construction site of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction site of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20171005_newfoundland_002.jpg
  • Construction site of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction site of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction site of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Detail of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland d...jpg
  • Construction site of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • Construction of new 60 storey residential tower block Newfoundland at Canary Wharf financial district in London, England, United Kingdom. Newfoundland is a 60-storey residential building which will be situated on the western side of the Canary Wharf Estate and bound by Westferry Road to the west, Middle Dock to the east, and Bank Street to the south. The slim diamond shape of the tower is determined by the narrow footprint of the site. The dia-grid structural system expressed on the facade of the building supports and braces the structure.
    20180625_canary wharf newfoundland_0...jpg
  • A British Airways baggage handler scans the bar code of his airline passenger's item of luggage before loading it into the aircraft hold container bins. 50-70,000 pieces of BA baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through these 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. There are four colour codes: Yellow for out-of-gauge (oversized, like golf clubs); dark blue for not x-rayed; light blue for transfer and red, meaning the item has been subjected to 12 seconds of x-ray scanning. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • Smoke damage aftermath on the exterior of a flat fire in one of the two Wendover blocks on Alsace Road on the Aylesbury Estate, Southwark SE17, on 24th September 2018, in London, England. Part of a split level flat on the fourth and fifth floor of the 15-storey block was damaged. One woman and two children left the property before the Brigade arrived. They were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by London Ambulance Service crews and taken too hospital. Another man was also treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
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  • Smoke damage aftermath on the exterior of a flat fire in one of the two Wendover blocks on Alsace Road on the Aylesbury Estate, Southwark SE17, on 24th September 2018, in London, England. Part of a split level flat on the fourth and fifth floor of the 15-storey block was damaged. One woman and two children left the property before the Brigade arrived. They were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation by London Ambulance Service crews and taken too hospital. Another man was also treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
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  • A British Airways baggage handler scans the bar code of his airline passenger's item of luggage before loading it into the aircraft hold container bins. 50-70,000 pieces of BA baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1200-13-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1187-13-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1184-13-08-2009_1 1.jpg
  • 50-70,000 pieces of British Airways baggage a day travel through 11 miles of conveyor belts which were installed in a 5-storey underground hall beneath the 400m (a quarter of a mile) length of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Here we see items of luggage spending 4 hours in transit, held in a fully-automated parking lot for bags. Computers decide when to fish the item out and re-introduce it into the system and load it on to the appropriate aircraft. T5 alone has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year and was completed in 2008 at a cost of £4.3bn. The system was designed by an integrated team from the airport operator BAA, BA and Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands, and handles both intra-terminal and inter-terminal luggage. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1184-13-08-2009_1.jpg
  • In soft mid-morning spring sunshine, we see rising up from street-level the 5-storey houses with Doric columns in London's famous Eaton Square. Bathed in mid-morning spring sunshine, shadows from nearby trees are cast over the cream-coloured pillars of these exclusive and classically-designed properties in Belgravia. Shrubs and plants can be seen growing on the terraced balconies and all the painted surfaces are pristine. Eaton Square is one of London's three garden squares built by Thomas Cubitt and the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia from 1826 until 1855. Belgravia attracts actors, politicians, ambassadors, big-budget bankers, traders and Prime Ministers like Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin at number 93.
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  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
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  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20191005_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Chengqi  round earth dwelling is considered the "king of Hakka earth buildings", Gaobei village, Fujian province,                  The bulding consists of four storeys plus four  inner circles containing a total of 400 rooms.          These are some of the most extraordinary multistory structures in China built exclusively out of earth and timber (they are known as tulou). From the outside they look and protect like fortresses, built principally by the ethnic minority group known as the Hakka. They where built principally in the 17th till the early 20th centuries. In all about 1000 remain standing today mostly centered around the mountainous regions of the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guandong. They where constructed in various shapes from circular, square, oblong, even rhomboid. Chengqi  was built sometime in the Qing Dynasty ( 1644-1912)  estimated at about 300 years old and still remains well preserved and lived in by a hand full of residents. Cooking and eating facilities are at ground level and all bedrooms and storage are spread over the upper floors.
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  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20170518_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20170518_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20170518_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20170518_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
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  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20180529_tower blocks birmingham_001.jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20191005_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20191005_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
    20191005_civic centre estate birming...jpg
  • Tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate in central Birmingham, United Kingdom. The Civic Centre is a collection of four tower blocks in Birmingham city centre, behind The Rep theatre. The scheme was approved in two phases, with the first phase being the two tower blocks on Brindley Drive, which were approved in 1966 and completed in 1968. These blocks have a total of 124 flats and are both 16 storeys tall. The tower blocks on Civic Close were approved in 1968 and completed in 1969 again by Bryant. These two tower blocks are 15 storeys in height, although appear identical to the Brindley Drive pair, and contain a total of 116 flats. From 2006 through to 2007, the tower blocks on the estate underwent an extensive refurbishment.
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  • Workmen on a construcion site work beneath the concrete core of a new building being erected in the City of London. The central lift shaft of a new office block rises above the team of workers' heads - the numbers of future storeys in this building that is being built on London Wall, in the capital's financial district otherwise known as the Square Mile, after its circling Roman and medieval wall.
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  • Lift shafts with their floors marked vertically at 5 Broadgate, designed by Make Architects which will become the new home of UBS in London when fully occupied. 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m). Rising towards the blue sky is the tower-like structure with blue numbers of future storeys, stencilled on to the grey reinforced concrete. There will be 12 floors to this office complex of 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m), scheduled to be completed in 2016. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • Old architecture and the new development high-rise development at 22 Bishopsgate in the City of London - the capitals financial district, on 21st August 2018, in London, England. 22 Bishopsgate is a commercial skyscraper under construction in London, United Kingdom. It will occupy a prominent site on Bishopsgate, in the City of London financial district, and is set to stand 278 m tall with 62 storeys. The project replaces an earlier plan for a 288 m tower named The Pinnacle, on which construction was started in 2008 but suspended in 2012 following the Great Recession.
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  • The One Canada Square is seen soon after its completion in the early-1990s. Seen from a low angle inside the dome of Cabot Square shopping mall, we see the tall building rising above us. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape. One Canada Square (often incorrectly called Canary Wharf, after its location) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It was the tallest building in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2010, standing at 235 metres (770 ft) above ground level and containing 50 storeys.
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  • A corner of One Canada Square is seen soon after its completion in the early-1990s. A street light has just been turned on in the early evening and the offices inside the tower also start to brighten the corporate spaces. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape. One Canada Square (often incorrectly called Canary Wharf, after its location) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It was the tallest building in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2010, standing at 235 metres (770 ft) above ground level and containing 50 storeys.
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  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
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  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_021.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_017.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards Tower Bridge from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_016.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_018.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards Tower Bridge from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_014.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards Tower Bridge from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_013.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_010.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_007.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards 1 St Mary Axe aka the Gherkin from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_003.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards 1 St Mary Axe aka the Gherkin from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_002.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
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  • We are looking up from the ground to crowds gathered in three levels of a multi-story car park to await athletes pass during the London Marathon. The runners will make their way through the streets of East London beneath these spectators who have been patiently waiting for their friends and families to pass below. It is a great viewpoint from which to view such a sporting spectacle and we are peering up at the supporters leaning against the discoloured (discolored) concrete architecture dating back to the 1970s. It is the best elevated place to witness the race. There are three rows of 5 columns totalling 15 seperate windows and each one is full of families young and old. They resemble the compartments of a garden pet hutch where rabbits are kept in cramped conditions.
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  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_020.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_011.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_009.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_019.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards Tower Bridge from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_015.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_008.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards the financial district of Canary Wharf from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_006.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards 1 St Mary Axe aka the Gherkin from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_005.jpg
  • Views of the cityscape skyline looking towards 1 St Mary Axe aka the Gherkin from The Garden at 120, the City of London’s largest rooftop public space, located atop the newly opened Fen Court office building at 120 Fenchurch Street in London, United Kingdom. At 15-storeys up, the viewing platform offers exceptional 360-degree views of the City and greater London, and is free for members of the public to visit.
    20190311_view from garden at 120_004.jpg
  • New residential apartment tower blocks next to the older Alpha Tower just east of the city centre in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Paradise, formerly named Paradise Circus, is the name given to an area of approximately 7 hectares in Birmingham city centre between Chamberlain and Centenary Squares. The area has been part of the civic centre of Birmingham since the 19th century. From 2015 Argent Group will redevelop the area into new mixed use buildings and public squares.
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  • New residential apartment tower blocks next to the older Alpha Tower just east of the city centre in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Paradise, formerly named Paradise Circus, is the name given to an area of approximately 7 hectares in Birmingham city centre between Chamberlain and Centenary Squares. The area has been part of the civic centre of Birmingham since the 19th century. From 2015 Argent Group will redevelop the area into new mixed use buildings and public squares.
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  • Local atmosphere due to Coronavirus lockdown is felt on a street by street level as streets remain deserted near the tower blocks of flats in Lozells and east Handsworth as people observe the stay at home advice from the government on 7th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
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  • Local atmosphere due to Coronavirus lockdown is felt on a street by street level as streets remain deserted as a bus passes near the tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate as people observe the stay at home advice from the government on 7th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
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  • Local atmosphere due to Coronavirus lockdown is felt on a street by street level as streets remain deserted near the tower blocks of flats of the Civic Centre Estate as people observe the stay at home advice from the government on 7th April 2020 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Coronavirus or Covid-19 is a new respiratory illness that has not previously been seen in humans. While much or Europe has been placed into lockdown, the UK government has announced more stringent rules as part of their long term strategy, and in particular social distancing.
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  • Newly-completed high-rise apartments at Elephant & Castle in the south London borough of Southwark, on 26th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • Modern and 19th century architecture in Manhattan, New York City. High-rise buildings are mostly corporate offices though some apartments in this, one of the world's great megacities. They occupy addresses along Broadway - a mixture of modernity and 19th century architecture can be seen in detail.
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  • Red brick apartment building in Manhattan, New York City. A detail of ledges are seen from a high angle as we look down from a higher building.
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  • Rooftop gardens overlooking Broadway, Manhattan, New York City. Tall buildings in the background (including the Woolworth building, far left) are on Broadway - the foreground are apartments with an oasis of greenery clinging to the tops of two buildings. This cityscape is about corporate headquarters and domestic high-rise homes in one of the greatest of world cities.
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  • A businessman wearing a light summer suit and carrying a briefcase walks away in the opposite direction to Canary Wharf tower which is seen over his shoulder from across a tree-lined Brockwell Park in South London, approximately 7.5 miles away. The flattened-perspective is because of an extremely long telephoto lens making it seem closer than it is in reality. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • Blocks of flats in warm evening sunshine, on 7th March 2018, on Denmark Hill in the south London borough of Southwark.
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  • Seen from the inside looking outwards, we see one of the giant 38 ton 'torso nodes' of Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 roof structure. Developed by Arup to design the geometry of abutment steel, this engineering challenge needed to help support 50 ton rafters to made T5 the largest free-standing building in the UK. In the centre is the torso that sits on top of two feet with the wings splaying out to the window. The main architecture was created by the Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners) and opened in 2008 after a cost of £4.3 billion. Terminal 5 has the capacity to serve around 30 million passengers a year. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
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  • A construction crane reflected in the plate glass of office windows on Cannon Street in the City of London, on 22nd January 2019, in London England.
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  • Highly-reflective steel girders shine in strong sunlight on a south London construction site. A yellow crane platform lifts materials into place during the build in a sidestreet in the London borough of Southwark. Glistening on the highly-polished metal that shines on the site, the heavy struts lie horizontally with diagonals from the crane making an industrial landscape.
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  • Highly-reflective steel girders shine in strong sunlight on a south London construction site. A yellow crane platform lifts materials into place during the build in a sidestreet in the London borough of Southwark. Glistening on the highly-polished metal that shines on the site, the heavy struts lie horizontally with diagonals from the crane making an industrial landscape.
    construction_site01-18-02-2015_1.jpg
  • Office workers seen through the windows of their financial corporate headquarters in the heart of the Square Mile, the capitals historical and financial centre, on 1st November 2017, in the City of London, England.
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  • Lightweight long-span cellular beams at Crown Place, a new office construction development in Sun Street in the City of London - the capitals historic financial district - on 20th August 2018, in London, England. One Crown Place will comprise of existing period buildings with two new residential towers offering 246 apartments. The six-floor podium features 15,500sqm of high-quality office space, with a variety of retail space at ground level.
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  • Lightweight long-span cellular beams at Crown Place, a new office construction development in Sun Street in the City of London - the capitals historic financial district - on 20th August 2018, in London, England. One Crown Place will comprise of existing period buildings with two new residential towers offering 246 apartments. The six-floor podium features 15,500sqm of high-quality office space, with a variety of retail space at ground level.
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